Rosalind Russell
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1907-06-04
Day of Death
1976-11-28 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
Rosalind Russell
Biography
Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame. She won all 5 Golden Globes for which she was nominated, and was tied with Meryl Streep for wins until 2007 when Streep was awarded a sixth. Russell won a Tony Award in 1953 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Ruth in the Broadway show Wonderful Town (a musical based the film My Sister Eileen, in which she also starred).
Russell was known for playing character roles, exceptionally wealthy, dignified ladylike women. She had a wide career span from the 1930s to the 1970s and attributed her long career to the fact that, although usually playing classy and glamorous roles, she never became a sex symbol, not being famous for her looks.
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Acting
(2017)
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson
as Self (archive footage)
(2006)
On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'
as Self (archive footage)
(1995)
The Flood of ‘55
as Herself (archive footage)
(1994)
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
as Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1994)
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
(1988)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
(1973)
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self (archive footage)
(1972)
The Crooked Hearts
as Laurita Dorsey
(1971)
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
as Mrs. Pollifax
(1968)
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
as Mother Simplicia
(1967)
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
as Madame Rosepettle
(1967)
Rosie!
as Rosie Lord
(1966)
The Trouble with Angels
as Mother Superior
(1962)
Gypsy
as Rose Hovick
(1962)
Five Finger Exercise
as Louise Harington
(1961)
A Majority of One
as Bertha Jacoby
(1958)
Auntie Mame
as Mame Dennis
(1958)
Wonderful Town
as Ruth Sherwood
(1955)
Picnic
as Rosemary - The School Teacher
(1955)
The Girl Rush
as Kim Halliday
(1953)
Never Wave at a WAC
as Josephine "Jo" McBain
(1950)
A Woman of Distinction
as Susan Manning Middlecott
(1949)
Tell It to the Judge
as Marsha Meredith
(1948)
The Velvet Touch
as Valerie Stanton
(1947)
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Lavinia Mannon
(1947)
The Guilt of Janet Ames
as Janet Ames
(1947)
Blow-Ups of 1947
as Self
(1946)
Sister Kenny
as Elizabeth Kenny
(1945)
Roughly Speaking
as Louise Randall Pierson
(1945)
She Wouldn't Say Yes
as Dr. Susan A. Lane
(1945)
(1944)
Breakdowns of 1944
as Self
(1943)
What a Woman
as Carol Ainsley
(1943)
Flight for Freedom
as Tonie Carter
(1942)
(1942)
Take a Letter, Darling
as A.M. MacGregor
(1942)
My Sister Eileen
as Ruth Sherwood
(1941)
The Feminine Touch
as Julie Hathaway
(1941)
Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1941)
They Met in Bombay
as Anya Von Duren
(1941)
Design for Scandal
as Judge Cornelia C. Porter
(1940)
His Girl Friday
as Hildy Johnson
(1940)
Hired Wife
as Kendal Browning
(1940)
No Time for Comedy
as Linda Paige Esterbrook
(1940)
(1940)
(1940)
This Thing Called Love
as Ann Winters
(1939)
The Women
as Sylvia Fowler
(1939)
Fast and Loose
as Garda Sloane
(1939)
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
(1938)
The Citadel
as Christine Manson
(1938)
Man-Proof
as Elizabeth Kent
(1938)
Breakdowns of 1938
as Rosalind (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1938)
Four's a Crowd
as Jean Christy
(1937)
Night Must Fall
as Olivia Grayne
(1937)
The Romance of Celluloid
as Self
(1937)
Live, Love and Learn
as Julie Stoddard
(1936)
Under Two Flags
as Lady Venetia Cunningham
(1936)
Craig's Wife
as Harriet Craig
(1936)
(1936)
Trouble for Two
as Miss Vandeleur
(1936)
It Had to Happen
as Beatrice Newnes
(1935)
China Seas
as Sybil Barclay
(1935)
Reckless
as Josephine 'Jo' Mercer
(1935)
Rendezvous
as Joel Carter
(1935)
West Point of the Air
as Dare Marshall
(1935)
The Night Is Young
as Countess Zarika Rafay
(1935)
The Casino Murder Case
as Doris
(1934)
Forsaking All Others
as Eleanor
(1934)
Evelyn Prentice
as Mrs. Nancy Harrison
(1934)
The President Vanishes
as Sally Voorman
Crew
(1971)
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
Screenplay
(1956)
The Unguarded Moment
Story